some jc news
Normally, I wouldn't post personal 'get a blog' stuff, but I'm starting to get depressed and I decided that boosting my ego for once might be nice. Also I love you all and want to share with the community. Nobody seemed to mind when I made personal gripey threads, so a personal brag thread should be okay.
About 3 weeks ago I defended my thesis. So now, except for the whole thesis-revision-and-actual-graduation-thing, I have mastered the shit out of the arts. And I started library school. In the space of one day I went from shitty linguist to untrained librarian. Still, it seems like a good move.
How are you guys doing?
About 3 weeks ago I defended my thesis. So now, except for the whole thesis-revision-and-actual-graduation-thing, I have mastered the shit out of the arts. And I started library school. In the space of one day I went from shitty linguist to untrained librarian. Still, it seems like a good move.
How are you guys doing?
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I'm doing well, since you asked. I start labwork this week as a more-different engineering student. Plus we moved into a townhouse with two floors.
Mario was very excited on the phone with me about it.
-Have fun with the librarian thing. I never spend time at actual libraries, but this is certainly something I chide myself for.
As for what I'm up to, I'm on a laptop right now as I've been keeping my desktop busy rendering all the frames of an animation I made as a final project for one of my classes. I am quite enjoying my game design classes.
I mean, I'm terrible at all the stuff I have to do in library science too, but that stuff's easier.
-seriously though, being good at math doesn't seem to be a major requirement, and I know there are positions in game development that don't require programming, or at least not much. Really I think mod work or otherwise a good portfolio is better than a degree in any case. It also helps to know people in the business no doubt.
Though if your aims are simple and you know at least a little programming things like Gamemaker are nice.
As for me, I'm currently taking organic chemistry so that should let you know how much free time I have.
(Can you post or PM a link to your final thesis when you're done?)
What is it like behind the Iron Curtain of librarianism? I've always wanted to know. Unfortunately, I will likely not find out because I am starting work in a week at a small educational software company making games that will warp the minds of children as young as two. Huzzah!
(I thoroughly envy the Stef and Mario two-floor TERRORDROME, as I am currently homeless and househunting later today.)
Did You Know:
Salt Lake City, Utah, is exactly two days from Davis, California when driving on Route 80? It's A Fact!
For the record, we don't live in one of the Davis 2-story TERROR DOMES. I totally wish we did.
But, yeah! JC, post your thesis!
Utah, btw, is quite staggeringly beautiful. I see mountains! My lungs don't corrode when I breathe! (Of course, maybe it's LA that's outside the norm.)
Yes, the TERROR DOMES would have been totally wicked, but that wasn't a typo, just a geeky euphemism for awesometacular evil lair.
(back on topic)
Yeah, JC!, post your thesis!
Sorry, I couldn't see any of the posts under that through my tears.
Math is useful, but not necessary; programming is actually rather linguistic. Neither of these are good excuses! YOU CAN DESIGN GAMES! And you'd probably come up with a freakin' awesome one, too.
It's official: Rice University has accepted my final thesis. If I can find the webspace, I'll put it online for you. I don't know what the copyright situation is on it, so I might be totally be a pirate. I don't give a fuck.
I have simultaneously officially become a linguist and stopped being a linguist!
Jason, are you still working on games? Can I talk to you about an idea I had? It is for a game that would be fun.
It would be nice to talk to you too, Stef, for non-game-related reasons! It's been forever.
Anyway, Here is a Yousendit link to my thesis. The link should be good for 7 days. Seriously, I can't even get all the way through this thing, so nobody should feel like they have to.
Yeah, it would be nice to talk to you as well. DISCLAIMER: I am really boring these days.
I myself have missed my bedtime in the past while reading a discussion on the L2 cache in the latest intel processors vs competing AMD processors. It would have bored most people I know to tears, but I thought it was genuinely interesting.
Doing things, or having passion for things, makes you more likely to provide an interesting companion for another person, but it's no guarantee. And your interest in <computer thing you just talked about> doesn't make you particularly interesting or uninteresting to me, but if you wanted to talk exclusively about <aforementioned computer thing> I'd find you pretty boring, sure.
Though I guess DI pulls that off pretty nicely, so whatever.
Also, golf sucks. kthxbai.